Retail Banking Job Trends

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 505 669
Rank change year-on-year -126 +164 -62
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 77 118 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.089% 0.28% 0.22%
As % of the General category 0.17% 0.40% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 53 47 173
10th Percentile - £25,313 £57,988
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £83,577 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% - +18.40%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,539
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - +20.44% +8.58%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 44,539 29,507 57,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 51.73% 70.95% 60.56%
Number of salaries quoted 23,994 15,882 39,537
10th Percentile £28,261 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,400 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +13.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,055 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.10% +5.38% -9.52%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Retail Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 17 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -111 76 £82,500 -1.29% 17
London -20 65 £80,000 +6.67% 7
UK excluding London -101 11 £85,000 - 11
North West -12 10 £85,000 -10.18% 4
North of England -57 10 £85,000 +231.71% 5
Work from Home -12 6 £72,250 -3.67% 5
Scotland -30 1 £90,000 -

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.90%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (2.60%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) FLEXCUBE
1 3 (3.90%) Misys Opics
1 3 (3.90%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 40 (51.95%) AWS
2 34 (44.16%) Azure
3 17 (22.08%) GCP
4 8 (10.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (10.39%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.19%) GitHub
6 3 (3.90%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (3.90%) PaaS
7 2 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.60%) SaaS
8 1 (1.30%) Figma
8 1 (1.30%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.99%) Cisco Firepower
1 10 (12.99%) Firewall
1 10 (12.99%) LAN
1 10 (12.99%) VPN
1 10 (12.99%) WAN
2 8 (10.39%) BGP
2 8 (10.39%) Cisco ISE
2 8 (10.39%) OSPF
2 8 (10.39%) SD-WAN
2 8 (10.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.48%) Data Lake
1 15 (19.48%) Metadata
2 3 (3.90%) Data Mart
2 3 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.90%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (3.90%) Oracle ODI
2 3 (3.90%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.30%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Git
2 2 (2.60%) JIRA
3 1 (1.30%) JUnit
General
1 54 (70.13%) Banking
2 38 (49.35%) Finance
3 19 (24.68%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (22.08%) Social Skills
5 15 (19.48%) Financial Institution
5 15 (19.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (15.58%) Retail
7 1 (1.30%) Advertising
7 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Law
7 1 (1.30%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (41.56%) Senior
2 16 (20.78%) Developer
3 15 (19.48%) Architect
3 15 (19.48%) AWS Engineer
3 15 (19.48%) Data Architect
4 12 (15.58%) AWS Developer
4 12 (15.58%) Azure Developer
4 12 (15.58%) Cloud Developer
5 11 (14.29%) Auditor
5 11 (14.29%) IT Auditor
5 11 (14.29%) Senior Auditor
5 11 (14.29%) Senior IT Auditor
6 10 (12.99%) Network Engineer
6 10 (12.99%) Senior Developer
7 8 (10.39%) Python Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Platform Manager
8 6 (7.79%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Digital Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.39%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.90%) .NET
3 1 (1.30%) Kafka
3 1 (1.30%) Spring
3 1 (1.30%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.99%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.60%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (41.56%) Agile
2 22 (28.57%) DevOps
3 18 (23.38%) CI/CD
3 18 (23.38%) Data Management
3 18 (23.38%) Data Modelling
4 16 (20.78%) Asset Management
4 16 (20.78%) Business Development
4 16 (20.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (19.48%) Analytics
5 15 (19.48%) Commercialisation
5 15 (19.48%) Cost Management
5 15 (19.48%) Data Architecture
5 15 (19.48%) Data Migration
5 15 (19.48%) Data Privacy
5 15 (19.48%) Data Strategy
5 15 (19.48%) Innovative Thinking
5 15 (19.48%) Logical Data Model
5 15 (19.48%) Metadata Management
5 15 (19.48%) Migration
5 15 (19.48%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.69%) Python
2 4 (5.19%) Java
2 4 (5.19%) SQL
3 3 (3.90%) C#
3 3 (3.90%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.30%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.30%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (19.48%) AWS Certification
1 15 (19.48%) Azure Certification
2 8 (10.39%) CCNP
2 8 (10.39%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.60%) Degree
4 1 (1.30%) APMG
4 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.30%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (10.39%) Check_MK
2 7 (9.09%) Terraform
3 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (23.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.99%) Cisco
2 10 (12.99%) Palo Alto
3 8 (10.39%) SolarWinds
4 3 (3.90%) Oracle
5 1 (1.30%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.30%) Databricks
5 1 (1.30%) Google